Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey

Natalie Ogbourne

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Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey

Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey

Natalie Ogbourne

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Experience Yellowstone for Yourself.


Waking up in the Wilderness invites you to embark on a four-decade journey into Yellowstone National Park. Travel with Natalie Ogbourne as she navigates the fine line between isolation and solitude-on the road, on the trail, and in life. Encounter the park's inseparable dangers and delights. Explore Yellowstone through each of its seasons-hiking, canoeing, fly fishing, snowmobiling, and camping along the way. Experience the transformational power of its wilderness.


It's said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or the rotation of a tire. Or the turn of a page.


Let's go to Yellowstone.



Waking Up in the Wilderness offers more than a story of Natalie Ogbourne and her family doing what they love, in a place they love, with people they love. Rather, it's an invitation to head into Yellowstone with a companionable guide who wants readers to experience the park and see all there is to see for themselves.





Critical Reviews

"Natalie Ogbourne is a long-standing citizen of the Yellowstone Nation, and in Waking Up in the Wilderness she chronicles the richly rewarding arts, skills, and wisdoms she has earned in many seasons of watching "Yellowstone being Yellowstone." Her enthusiastic and affable tales of exploring the park display not only good sense but an admirable humility in the face of Yellowstone's wonders."

-Paul Schullery, author of Mountain Time, Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness,

and The Bear Doesn't Know: Life and Wonder in Bear Country


"Natalie Ogbourne's Waking Up in the Wilderness takes us on adventures where the epic wild majesty of Yellowstone National Park is as much a character as Ogbourne and her family. From the bison and bear that prowl the landscape, to the trails threaded through deep pinewoods, to the author's beloved Old Faithful Inn where her journeys in this magic place first began, this account of Ogbourne's repeated pilgrimages to Yellowstone illuminates a place where the wilderness and civilization interact in a very intimate and strange way, like the dynamic landscape in Yellowstone itself. Through this lens of forays into this special place, Ogbourne shows readers the mercies of nature, love, passing time, and family."

-Nicholas Trandahl, award-winning poet, author of Mountain Song and Purgatory


"This book is as close as possible to experiencing the beauty and grandeur of Yellowstone without being there. Through Natalie's words and descriptions, the reader can almost hear the thundering waters cascading over the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River or feel the stream of hot water gushing upwards from Old Faithful Geyser. Waking Up in the Wilderness brought back precious memories of my own visits to Yellowstone National Park."

-Paul Stutzman, author of Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the AppalachianTrail

Publishing Information

Publisher: Oak Stream Odysseys
Pub date: 2024-10-12
Length: 232 pages

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